Abū Hātim also related in his Sahīh (1) that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would say upon finishing his prayer:
“O Allah, set right for me my religion, which You have made the safeguard of my affairs, and set right for me my worldly life, in which You have placed my livelihood. O Allah, I seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your anger, in Your pardon from Your punishment, and in You from You. None can withhold what You give, and none can give what You withhold; nor can a wealthy person’s wealth avail him before You.”
Al-Hākim related in his Mustadrak (2) that Abū Ayyūb said: Whenever I prayed behind your Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, I heard him say upon finishing his prayer:
“O Allah, forgive all my errors and sins. O Allah, uplift me (3), grant me life, provide for me, and guide me to righteous deeds
(1) No. 2026. Also transmitted by al-Bazzār (6:22), al-Nasā’ī in al-Mujtabā (1346) and al-Kubrā (1270, 9888), Ibn Khuzayma (745), al-Tabarānī in al-Duʿā’ (653) and al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (8:33), al-Bayhaqī in al-Daʿawāt al-Kabīr (1:184), and al-Diyā’ al-Maqdisī (8:65, 66). Its chain includes Abū Marwān, the father of ʿAtā’, who is not known. Nevertheless, al-Hāfiz graded it as hasan (sound) in Natā’ij al-Afkār (2:334, 335), while noting differing versions of its chain. Al-Albānī graded it as weak; see Tamām al-Minna (p. 219 ff.).
(2) (3:462). Also transmitted by al-Dīnawarī in al-Majālasa wa-Jawāhir al-ʿIlm (4:287, 288) and al-Tabarānī in al-Awsat (4442) and al-Kabīr (4:125), through ʿUmar ibn Miskīn, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, from Abū Ayyūb, who related this hadith. Its transmission hinges on this ʿUmar ibn Miskīn, a descendant of ʿUmar ibn al-Khattāb, may Allah be pleased with him. Al-Bukhārī said in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (6:198): “He narrates from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar … He is not corroborated in this narration.”
(3) This is the vocalization in manuscript jīm: inʿashnī (“uplift me”). In manuscript qāf, the letter ʿayn bears a kasrah, giving anʿishnī (“uplift me”). Both naʿasha and anʿasha mean to lift someone up and set him upright. The hadith appears with this wording in al-Tabarānī, al-Hākim (Dār al-Maymān edition, 7:365), and others, as well as in the Indian edition. The Maymaniyya edition reads ibʿathnī (“raise me”), as do subsequent editions and the Dār al-Ta’sīl edition of al-Mustadrak (6:302). The al-Risāla edition then changed it to anʿimnī (“bless me”), following the Indian printing of al-Mustadrak.